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The big comeback
Marks & Spencer’s huge new store is leading the regeneration of Manchester city centre after the bomb. And on page 46, a footbridge that celebrates M&S’ legendary hosiery.
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Stocking thriller
Shoppers will slip through a fishnet of steel rods to reach Manchester’s M&S store when a sexy new footbridge linking it with the Arndale opens this year.
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Opera house faces new deadline crisis
Militant electricians could jeopardise prestigious national projects with more action over pay.
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Tube deal qualifiers to be named on Monday
Bidders for the £7bn public-private partnership sell-off of the London Underground are expected to hear on Monday whether they have prequalified and will be asked to tender. It is understood that five of the six consortia that applied will now be asked to submit a full bid. A consortium of ...
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Five consortia listed for Stonehenge visitor centre
Edward Cullinan Architects and Sidell Gibson among firms shortlisted to design, build and operate PFI centre.
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Foster to sue on Reichstag
Architect Lord Foster has threatened to sue the German government over a disputed £1.2m repair bill for the £200m Reichstag parliament building in Berlin.Lord Foster is set to issue a writ to Bundesbaugesellschaft, the Reichstag public-private client, if it does not pay the money. The move follows a letter from ...
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Bob and Chris’ Fearnley Group in receivership
Fearnley Group, the Manchester-based contractor bought by Mowlem managers Robert Dean and Chris Stroud two years ago, has gone into receivership.Receiver Arthur Andersen was appointed last Tuesday at the £20m-turnover firm.Staff at Fearnley’s Manchester office said the company is still trading and it is “business as usual”. However, one ...
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New 2000 villages plan
Five millennium villages and two national parks are among the new projects unveiled by deputy prime minister John Prescott in his speech to the Labour Party conference on Wednesday.Prescott said the “flagships for urban renaissance” would build on the lessons learned at the Millennium Villages in Greenwich and Allerton Bywater, ...
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Ministers refuse to budge over NHS staff transfers
Contractors accuse government of moving goalposts over decision to allow trusts to keep staff.
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Unions launch fresh attack on the PFI
Unions are renewing efforts to persuade the government to abandon the private finance initiative.TUC general secretary John Monks attacked the PFI. He told a packed fringe meeting at Bournemouth that it was “nothing more than a glorified mortgage showing up debt later on. “Porters, catering staff and maintenance workers end ...
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Delegates turn on Milburn
Labour delegates gave chief secretary to the Treasury Alan Milburn a rough ride at a fringe meeting on public finance. Delegates said the private finance initiative was no longer needed because chancellor Gordon Brown has amassed a huge budget surplus.It was alleged that Brown’s fiscal measures, if they continue in ...
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Raynsford: State will fund anti-cowboy pilots
Construction minister to stay in job as he seeks Labour nomination for mayor of London.
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Dobson calls for HAs to house nurses
Housing associations are set to provide affordable accommodation for nurses in the centre of towns and cities. Secretary of state for health Frank Dobson said the department was talking to the Housing Corporation about housing provision and that the talks were encouraging.Speaking at a fringe meeting for the Socialist Health ...
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Armstrong: no brownfield tax breaks
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong hinted at this week’s conference that the government would stop short of offering tax breaks to housebuilders to meet its brownfield development targets.Asked whether there would be incentives for housebuilders building on recycled land, Armstrong told Building: “No, but we will do whatever is needed ...
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Government recycle plea
The managing director of one of the UK’s largest producers of quarried products has called on the government to do more to encourage the use of recycled aggregates.David Tidmarsh, of Aggregate Industries UK, said the government as a client needed to increase confidence in recycling. Speaking in Bournemouth, Tidmarsh told ...
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No hold-up with Rogers claims new minister
DETR minister Beverley Hughes gives her first interview after her promotion in the summer reshuffle.
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British Museum rumpus over 'wrong' French stone
Heritage Lottery Fund threatens to order demolition of portico in Great Court because of Portland stone row.
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BAA staffs up for Terminal 5 – again
BAA has stepped up the design development of its £1.8bn Heathrow Terminal 5 project, recalling dozens of staff.BAA is boosting the design team at Heathrow in anticipation of a favourable result in the public inquiry. A spokesperson for BAA said: “We believe the major detailed design effort will take us ...
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Industry faces big hike in CITB levy
The Construction Industry Training Board is likely to raise the industry’s training levy, chairman Hugh Try told Building this week.Try said the levy on directly employed labour would increase from 0.38% of direct employ payroll to 0.5%. He said: “We expect to get government approval by the end of the ...